While attacking and advancing, Li Hongzhang's troops were able to advance more than twenty miles from Yugou and reach Damiao, which is a relatively large village, and it took a whole day, so the disruptive tactics of the cavalry of the Twist Army were undoubtedly successful.

At night, seeing that the situation was not right, Li Hongzhang decided not to move forward and immediately set up camp.

"My lord, perhaps, wouldn't it be better for us to rush away quickly and take advantage of the night." Ma Jianzhong established,

"Yes, my lord, maybe, that's the only option." Biedger, an old Western claw, was in a hurry, seeing that such a powerful force of the Huai Army actually blocked the cavalry that suddenly came and went and couldn't move, he also felt panicked in his heart, knowing that it was not a good sign,

"The two of you will seriously consider the suggestions of this governor." Li Hongzhang made an official tone and immediately ordered all the troops to camp on the spot.

Of course, he thinks about it more than others, and it is good to surprise at night, but what about the enemy's cavalry at night, who suffers more,

On the way of the assault, it is impossible to take care of it, once the cavalry of the Twist Army comes in a row and the Huai Army is scattered, then the seeds of him and the remnants of the Huai Army will become the knife and meat of others without exception.

Foreign guns and foreign artillery are more advantageous to fight during the day, so Li Hongzhang's stationing is also the actual situation.

However, as soon as they set up camp, they felt that something was wrong, how something was wrong, the opportunity could be known at a casual glance, first of all, the south, the cavalry of the Twist Army had not retreated, and they were far away, and a blocking line was established in the south, and the clusters of torches proved their strong strength, number, and the night made the large number of these coaxing forces exaggerated and deformed, making it look more grandiose, so every Huai officer and soldier saw it, and they were worried,

Li Hongzhang used a telescope to observe the torch group of the southern twisting army, and for the first time felt helpless and frightened, "So much." ”

This was just the beginning, and soon, a large number of torches appeared on the east side of their barracks, which proved that there were enemies swarming again, and then, a large number of torches also appeared in the west, which made Li Hongzhang so shocked that he wanted to immediately lead his troops to make a detour from the north.

It's a pity that new torches continue to pass through from the north and gather densely to the north of the Qing army's barracks.

This is bad news, as it proves that a large number of enemy troops have completely surrounded the barracks.

"Jianzhong, what do you think of this situation?" Li Hongzhang couldn't hold his breath anymore, according to his experience, the enemies surrounded by him were at least more than 100,000.

Ma Jianzhong and the others, a total of four staff, smiled bitterly with a cold face: "Lord Governor, don't worry, there are many bandits, we are not unexperienced, our Huai army has always won more with less, and when we wait until tomorrow, our army will work together to defeat the enemy." ”

There's nothing to say, it's just self-comforting,

The Huai army is not vegetarian, at night, strengthened the vigilance, maintained full combat effectiveness, one-third of the vigilant guards, the rest of the people rested, swords and guns did not leave their bodies, many people have been stepping up digging trenches overnight, trying to make it wider and deeper,

Groups of patrolling soldiers, closely watching the movements around them,

When Li Hongzhang was nervous, Luo Yang was also very nervous, but the content of the tension was not the same, he asked a lot of questions worriedly, and made the officers and soldiers in charge of reconnaissance cry and laugh, so he had to pat his chest and pull his hair to ensure that if his reconnaissance results were not right, he would be willing to be court-martialed.

"Is it really Li Hongzhang?"

"Indeed, I took a few prisoners, they all said."

"There are more than 20,000 enemy troops."

"yes."

"Then, probe."

"Yes."

On the second watch, when the officers and soldiers of the army finally set up camp and dug a ravine, Luo Yang was gnawing on a piece of cake, which was freezing and had become an iron plate.

The Huaxia Army first encircled the enemy, established an interception front, and was busy until the third watch, stabilizing the situation.

Almost all the troops are surrounding the enemy, and Luo Yang wants every officer to guarantee that he will never let the enemy run away from his defensive line.

The night battle eliminated the results of the Yongcheng Cheng Xueqi army, and made everyone realize that when facing the threat of the enemy's foreign guns and artillery, the best way is to fight at night, so on this night, almost every officer and soldier realized that it was the time of the decisive battle.

On the fourth watch, Luo Yang instructed all troops to send reconnaissance troops, reconnoiter close to the enemy, make the nearest enemy movement, and then, half an hour later, made an order to attack.

In order to avoid accidental injuries during night battles, Luo Yang decided to reduce the number of attacking troops, and only sent an infantry regiment, an artillery regiment with flying thunder artillery, combined with infantry and artillery, from north to south, to sweep through the enemy's barracks.

When it was close to the fifth watch, Luo Yang dispatched the main attack force to set off with the assistance of the special operations troops of the sealed bamboo fire.

One thousand seven hundred, of which, one thousand one hundred and twenty infantry, one hundred special forces, and only four hundred artillery men, in groups of seven, used and transported explosive packs, moved forward, and it was determined to say, fifty flying thunder guns, and later, taking into account the practical possibility, an infantry battalion was added, which was responsible for transport,

Later, before the attack, Luo Yang dispatched another hundred flying thunder cannons as the firepower to break the enemy's first obstacle.

This little man, compared to the more than 24,000 people of the Huai army encamped, is really pitiful, under normal circumstances, if he knew that such a number of troops were coming, it was estimated that Li Hongzhang would have been cold.

In the late period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, because of the huge difference in weapons and ammunition, the Hunan army and the Huai army were often able to win more with less and achieve major victories, for example, in the battle of Yuhuatai outside Nanjing, the famous general Li Xiucheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 200,000 elites, actually fought for more than 20 days, and could not take down the camp of 30,000 people of the Zeng Guoquan army, and in the end, because of the lack of food, had to withdraw the troops, so that the Hunan army achieved the final victory,

Therefore, Huai Jun is confident,

Tonight the Huai army has no sleep,

After making preparations, it was completely five watches, Luo Yang personally went out and came to the front of the main attacking troops, visited the officers and soldiers who went out to fight, and told them to fight bravely.

The officers and men were full of spirits and said that they would win a victory and live up to expectations.

Luo Yang was just in front of the ravine, and he had been watching the progress of the battle, from the bombardment of the first shells to the continuous advancement of the main attacking force.

The attack went smoothly astonishing,

In the barracks of the Huai Army, countless officers and soldiers had noticed the abnormality and reported it to their superiors, and Li Hongzhang sent several generals to personally command, which can be said to be very important.

A series of whistling sounds suddenly burst the silence of the night, and then, the fire flashed, the cannon sounded, and the earth trembled.

At the north fence of the Huai army barracks, the foreign spearmen in ambush almost did not react, and they were completely shattered.

More than 150 flying thunder cannons bombarded row by row, blowing up the military camp of the Huai army into a sea of fire.

The fragments of corpses flying in the sky, reflected by the flickering fire in the night, looked particularly terrifying,

After smashing the enemy's defensive line, the infantry of the Huaxia Army quickly stepped forward,

In fact, this bombardment completely wiped out more than 2,000 Huai troops.